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Benchrest Shooting in Calf

I just got transferred from Maine to San Diego Calf. Are there any bench rest ranges and or clubs in the area that you would recommend ? I absolutely love my shooting and hunting and hope I will find others like me out here that enjoy the same. If there are no shooting and bench rest ranges is there someone out there would just like to get together to talk bench rest and shooting?

Merry Christmas
 
Sacramento has one. Too far to drive. Not sure how far you are from Coalinga. Check it out.

Jeff A
 
There must be somewhere in Southern Taxifornia to shoot Benchrest. Maybe consider changing to F Class or XTC.
 
Welcome to Cali.
Nothing in the way of benchrest near you that I’m aware of unfortunately. Ojai to the north. Visalia and Coalinga are both pretty far, I wouldn’t do them on a day trip. Ojai is about 4 hrs from you with light traffic which is a rarity on a weekend afternoon. Not sure what they have in AZ, might be worth looking into.
I don’t shoot matches, hopefully I’m missing something.
https://www.smgunclub.org/

I believe there is a place in Dulzera that has reduced 300 yard target matches. I’ve never been there but the guys I talked to are very talented.

http://range.palatribe.com/
The tables are awful but you can shoot paper out to 600 and steel to 800+
Not sure if they still run varmint matches, there have been a few changes recently.

Im not familiar with the shooting scene down there, hopefully somebody else will chime in.

Outside of BR, there are a lot of places to shoot. Just google it up.
Funny thing about this place. You hear so much about how Cali is anti gun yet there are a lot of ranges around.
 
Welcome! South Bay Rod and Gun Club, SBRGC.Org, Best range in San Diego County. No Bench Rest yet but good turn out for reduced Palma Match and a bunch of other shooting matches. Check out website and if you have ?, pm me. I'm a F Open shooter and RO out there. Charlie
 
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I used to shoot Pala's Varmint matches. Harold put on a great shoot. I heard recently that the still do shoot matches there.
The pala range is sweet. Harrold turned over the range a few months ago. He did stay on for the varmint match for a while but havent shot there in 6 months. The prices went up but last I checked they were still going strong. Bunch of great guys at that match.
 
Ojai is the only range shooting NBRSA 600 yard matches every other month in So. Cal. The next match is Jan, 20, 2019. Their web site is: http://ojaibenchrest.org/. Many So. Cal. shooters travel to Phoenix for short range matches as well as Visalia. Visalia has been shooting IBS but may be going back to NBRSA. Unfortunately organized benchrest matches are along way from SD.

The Pala Varmint matches are great fun, an shot in a bench rest format. I have shot dozens of them and shoot the Ojai matches. PM me if you want more information.
 
The Santa Margarita Gun Club holds matches on a regular basis at Camp Pendleton Marine base. They are more “F-Class” structured but it will scratch the itch. As mentioned, the range at Pala has changed since Harold retired but it is an option along with South Bay Rod and Gun where they shoot an F-Class style 300 yard “mini-Palma” match every month. I live in the El Cajon/Lakeside area, shoot me a PM if you’d like to get together.
 

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